Word: waging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Seventy-eight hospitals agreed to give annually three weeks' medical care in a semiprivate room to wage-earners who pay $10 a year to a new hospitalization organization called Associated Hospital Service. The same facilities now cost $49 a week. New York and 38 other U. S. cities copied this idea from Dallas, which in turn copied London...
...business. Boston's Frederic Christopher Dumaine, Amoskeag's treasurer and real boss, declared: "Nearly 1,000,000 New England spindles have gone to the scrap heap in the last few weeks. ... No management is competent to operate a plant like this, handicapped with . . . $2.56 [per week] average wage differential, which is particularly fatal to us as we have no mills in the South. . . . The two shift policy helps neither owners nor workers. . . . Until night work is stopped, neither the South nor the North will prosper. Domestic consumption does not warrant it, and our foreign market is vanishing...
Describing conditions that exist among Pennsylvania workers, she cited the case of a silk factory in Allentown employing young workers at "the disgraceful wage of $.65 to a $1.25 a month." It was the report of these conditions that influenced Congress to put a minimum wage law in the N.R.A...
...Schechters' Brooklyn plants were no interstate affair and therefore none of NRA's business. In effect, the Court's ruling coincided with dozens of other Federal judicial opinions that the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution gives NRA no power to enforce locally its labor and wage provisions. If the Supreme Court sustains the Circuit Court on this point NRA will have won its body but lost its soul...
...United States potentially neutral--may choose between two courses in the event of a European war. It may, in the vivid phrase of Frank Simonds, "wage neutrality"--that is, insist on maintaing to the utmost each of its rights under international law. This plan, however, as the experiences of 1914-1917 demonstrated, leads almost inevitably to involvement, since in modern warfare economic factors are of such vital importance, the blockade is so deadly a weapon, that self-preservation forces belligerents to curtail neutral trading privileges. The other course, less glorious but more realistic, is to withdraw the protection...